Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

In April 2019, a fiery streak lit up the sky over northern Costa Rica. It wasn’t lightning or fireworks. It was a rock from space, plunging into Earth’s atmosphere at over 14 kilometers per second.

A meteorite that recently gave one Georgia resident quite a shock when it crashed through his roof spent an awful long time making a cosmic journey that ended in a living room. Multiple fragments of ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Researchers have analyzed the McDonough meteorite, which crashed through a man's home in June, and determined that it is older than our planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

In April 2019, a fiery streak lit up the sky over northern Costa Rica. It wasn’t lightning or fireworks. It was a rock from space, plunging into Earth’s atmosphere at over 14 kilometers per second.

Multiple fragments of the space rock that tore through a home about 65 miles southwest of Athens were recently analyzed at the University of Georgia to determine its origin. A geologist at the ...